Using the textbook and the following resources, trace the development of the Civil Rights Movement from the Brown v. Board decision into and including the Black Power Movement. Make sure to present a thesis at the beginning of your essay:
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power
1. What various strategies were adopted by civil rights
leaders?
2.How did civil rights activists bring the movement to
national attention, and how did the movement evolve?
3. Why was the federal government reluctant to fully support
the movement?
4.What role did the federal government eventually play in
the movement?
5.What successes were achieved?
6.Why did the movement eventually lose momentum?
Essay should be minimum of 700 words. Use MLA style for use
of sources and internal citations.
